Ladies and gentlemen, I have a confession to make to each of you. While I have been a Cricket Taylor fan for a little while now, until tonight I have never had the pleasure of seeing her play on stage. A friend of mine turned me on to her music a few months ago, and I was fortunate (extremely Lucky would be more accurate) enough to meet Cricket and hear her rehearse for a show at Lyndah G’s casa. The private rehearsal knocked my socks off, and even though it wasn’t a “show”, it was a performance I’ll never forget. Unfortunately, the last few times she has played in Dallas, I was either out of town, too old, lame and/or not man enough to make it out to a late show.
All that is behind me now! Tonight, AllGood Cafe hosted Cricket Taylor, Donnie Ray Ford, and Justin Kipker; this time I didn’t weenie out and miss the show. I’m not sure how anyone could not enjoy themselves at a show like this one at a sweet venue and with great music from three talented musicians. The AllGood Cafe is a great live music spot with friendly staff, great food, and reasonable drink prices. The three artists on stage took turns singing their own songs, a few fun covers, and played to a full cafe for about two hours.
As I expected, Cricket sounded every bit as good as she looked up on stage. She is clearly a musician who is comfortable and capable performing in front of a crowd. Her set list was all of her own original music, including some new tunes. She stopped a few chords into her final song, and with a coy grin announced to the crowd that she felt like playing the Blues. The crowed cheered, and the rockn’ Blues that followed had the whole place fired up. I’ve seen several female artist with big voices that hide in little bodies, but none of them could even come close to the Blues that Miss Cricket played tonight. Cricket is playing with her new band, The Electro-Magnetics at the City Tavern on October 25th. I would defiantly recommend checking out that show!
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